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They Really Do Love Each Other Product Placement Logo Joke Death by Sex Sole Survivor The '80s Science Fiction Films Composite Character Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Ms. Fanservice Artistic License – Law Oh, Crap! Taking You with Me Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer The Vamp Scenery Porn Broken Bird Adaptation Dye-Job Taking the Bullet Extreme Doormat The Film of the Book Broken Aesop An Aesop The Great Depression From Bad to Worse Motor Mouth Jump Scare Gone Horribly Right Tap on the Head Expository Hairstyle Change Jerk with a Heart of Gold Self-Deprecation The Dragon Instant Death Bullet Face–Heel Turn Star-Crossed Lovers Children Are Innocent You Have Failed Me No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Your Head A-Splode Grey and Gray Morality Death by Adaptation Japanese Films Final Girl Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Slashed Throat Up to Eleven Crazy-Prepared Freeze-Frame Bonus Ambiguous Ending Trailers Always Spoil The Mafia Enemy Mine Slap-Slap-Kiss Flipping the Bird Meet Cute Kick the Son of a Bitch Storming the Castle Artistic License – Military Homage Flashback Film Series Early-Bird Cameo Vacation Films Stealth Hi/Bye What the Hell, Hero? Retcon Epic Fail Deconstruction Bland-Name Product Anachronic Order Even Evil Has Loved Ones Suddenly SHOUTING! For Want of a Nail Parental Abandonment Card-Carrying Villain Credits Gag Amoral Attorney Scenery Gorn Brutal Honesty Big "NO!" Improbable Weapon User Not So Above It All Fainting Break the Cutie Bottomless Magazines Easily Forgiven Black Best Friend Foreshadowing Air-Vent Passageway Overprotective Dad More Dakka Guns Akimbo The Un-Reveal The Alleged Car Brainless Beauty French Films Happily Married Woman Scorned Hell Is That Noise Screw the Money, I Have Rules! A.I. Is a Crapshoot Punny Name Red Eyes, Take Warning Lock and Load Montage Catapult Nightmare Ascended Extra Amusing Injuries My God, What Have I Done? Karmic Death Covers Always Lie Bond One-Liner Laser-Guided Karma Sinister Minister The Remake Conspicuous CG Russian Films Would Hurt a Child Not So Different Becoming the Mask Green-Eyed Monster Drill Sergeant Nasty The Ghost The Sociopath Bloodier and Gorier Real Life Abusive Parents Coming-of-Age Story Same Language Dub Creepy Child Shown Their Work Darker and Edgier Artistic License – Gun Safety Mugging the Monster Ship Tease You Killed My Father Fourth Date Marriage Bait-and-Switch Honor Before Reason As You Know An Arm and a Leg Five-Man Band And the Adventure Continues Older Than They Look Bowdlerise Large Ham Pyrrhic Victory Sanity Slippage Silent Movie Hypocritical Humor Adaptation Expansion My Beloved Smother Half the Man He Used to Be From Nobody to Nightmare Expy Leaning on the Fourth Wall Canon Foreigner Offscreen Moment of Awesome He Who Fights Monsters Woman in White Take a Third Option The Brute Fingore Roaring Rampage of Revenge Stock Footage The Mole Hero Antagonist Idiot Ball Reality Ensues Refuge in Audacity Batman Gambit Greater-Scope Villain Bullying a Dragon Adaptational Heroism Big Bad Heel Realization Pimped-Out Dress Disappeared Dad Creator Cameo Dies Wide Open Evil Is Hammy I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Line-of-Sight Name Works Set in World War II Fanservice Dirty Cop Artistic License – History Foil '80s Hair Film Noir Public Domain Feature Films Music Stories Adapted Out Shoot the Shaggy Dog The Hero Getting Crap Past the Radar Extremely Short Timespan Award-Bait Song Fun with Acronyms Knight Templar Victoria's Secret Compartment Silence Is Golden Humans Are Bastards Evil Laugh Attempted Rape Four-Temperament Ensemble Spell My Name with an "S" Action Genre Actor Allusion Rule of Funny Exactly What It Says on the Tin Developing Doomed Characters Deal with the Devil Authority Equals Asskicking Documentary Even Evil Has Standards Pretty in Mink The '60s Rich Bitch Adaptational Badass Friend to All Children The Stinger Antagonist Title Parental Neglect Disney Villain Death Sadistic Choice Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Romantic False Lead Good Is Not Nice Celebrity Paradox Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Black Comedy There Is No Kill Like Overkill Failed a Spot Check It Can Think Hair-Trigger Temper Insistent Terminology Narrator Improbable Aiming Skills Rape as Drama Wham Shot Artistic License – Geography Chase Scene Badass Normal The Place Author Appeal Captain Obvious Let's Get Dangerous! Names to Run Away from Really Fast Rule of Three Evil Brit Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Daylight Horror Humiliation Conga Unspoken Plan Guarantee Framing Device Visual Pun Meaningful Name Villainous Breakdown Superhero Improvised Weapon Heroic BSoD Our Zombies Are Different Shower Scene Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Disney Death Hope Spot Crapsack World Blood Knight The Starscream Demoted to Extra Reasonable Authority Figure Mythology Gag One-Man Army Wounded Gazelle Gambit Not What It Looks Like A Date with Rosie Palms Setting Update Faking the Dead Random Events Plot Those Wacky Nazis Our Vampires Are Different The Reveal Really Gets Around Mama Bear Mood Whiplash Gratuitous English Daddy's Girl Beauty Is Never Tarnished Ambiguously Gay Too Dumb to Live Christmas Movies Index Cat Fight The Big Guy Unreliable Narrator It Will Never Catch On Villain Song Lighter and Softer Reality Is Unrealistic Have a Gay Old Time Fan Disservice Disguised in Drag Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Shipper on Deck Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Arranged Marriage Dramatic Irony Revenge Alas, Poor Villain No-Sell Big Eater Ghost Fiction Male Frontal Nudity Death of a Child Bring My Brown Pants The '70s Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Call-Back Wretched Hive Small Name, Big Ego You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Aside Glance The Lost Lenore Meaningful Echo Wham Line Television Movie Index Recycled IN SPACE! Fanservice Extra German Films Sexy Discretion Shot Nice Hat Redemption Equals Death Soft Glass Character Development Neck Lift Badass in a Nice Suit Ominous Latin Chanting Double-Meaning Title Shell-Shocked Veteran Heroic Sacrifice Exact Words Roger Ebert: Great Movies List N-Word Privileges Handicapped Badass Betty and Veronica Based on a True Story Determinator aka: The Determinator Sci-Fi Horror Took a Level in Jerkass Playing Gertrude Bloodless Carnage Deliberately Monochrome Hollywood Darkness Animal Motifs Eyepatch of Power Match Cut Freudian Excuse Fire-Forged Friends Manly Tears Eiffel Tower Effect Curb-Stomp Battle Laughing Mad Comically Missing the Point True Companions Big Bad Duumvirate Guile Hero Shout-Out Alpha Bitch Properly Paranoid Evil Sounds Deep Stalker with a Crush Adults Are Useless Man on Fire Well-Intentioned Extremist Fish out of Water Super Strength "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Frame-Up Would Hit a Girl Loads and Loads of Characters Wicked Cultured Brick Joke Agony of the Feet Adaptation Distillation Kill It with Fire Red Right Hand Bare Your Midriff Retired Badass Not Quite Dead Rule of Cool Femme Fatale Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Loophole Abuse Throwing Your Sword Always Works Scare Chord Romantic Comedy Not Even Bothering with the Accent Spiritual Successor Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Book-Ends I Have Your Wife Gory Discretion Shot The Bully Hong Kong Films Naïve Newcomer Film Noir Index Fatal Flaw The Load Spanner in the Works Suspiciously Specific Denial Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Real Life Writes the Plot Villain with Good Publicity The Atoner Bald of Evil Pretty Little Headshots Arch-Enemy Dramedy It's Personal Call-Forward Department of Redundancy Department Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Leitmotif Major Injury Underreaction Bloody Hilarious Badass Boast Henpecked Husband All There in the Manual 20 Minutes into the Future Faux Affably Evil Pay Evil unto Evil Only One Name Unwitting Instigator of Doom Lampshade Hanging Papa Wolf Undying Loyalty Yandere The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Genre Savvy Politically Incorrect Villain Affably Evil Abhorrent Admirer MacGuffin Evil vs. Evil The Ace Defrosting Ice Queen Kids Are Cruel I Need a Freaking Drink Vomit Discretion Shot The End... Or Is It? Maybe Ever After Artistic License – Physics Boom, Headshot! "Shaggy Dog" Story Stealth Pun The '90s The Power of Love Big Applesauce Dwindling Party Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane BFG Captain Ersatz Genre Shift Reality Has No Subtitles Nice Guy Decoy Protagonist Fat Bastard Only Known by Their Nickname The Dreaded In Name Only NO INDOOR VOICE Adaptation Name Change Mercy Kill Ironic Echo Badass Grandpa Kill 'em All Nothing Is Scarier Beware the Nice Ones Awesome, but Impractical Epic Movie Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Precision F-Strike Here We Go Again! As Himself Aluminum Christmas Trees Sealed Evil in a Can Every Car Is a Pinto Mystery and Detective Films Gainax Ending The Dog Bites Back Establishing Character Moment Evil-Detecting Dog Make It Look Like an Accident Missing Mom Mind Screw Time Skip Villain Opening Scene Non-Indicative Name Translation Convention The Casanova Irony How We Got Here Continuity Nod Bi the Way Took a Level in Badass Jerk Jock Drowning My Sorrows Slasher Smile Never Found the Body Offscreen Teleportation Curse Cut Short An Axe to Grind Heel–Face Turn Catch-Phrase Only a Flesh Wound Depraved Bisexual Biopic Naked People Are Funny Animated Credits Opening Retirony Not So Stoic Morality Pet Moment Killer Bury Your Gays Cool Old Lady Rousing Speech Knife Nut Famous Last Words Belligerent Sexual Tension Hero of Another Story Armor-Piercing Question Cool Shades Dissonant Serenity Diabolus ex Machina Genre Throwback Bad Boss Double Entendre Kick the Dog Unusual Euphemism Ax-Crazy The Quiet One Action Prologue Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Gilligan Cut Leave the Camera Running Combat Pragmatist Hypocrite Bar Brawl Shirtless Scene Bittersweet Ending Vomit Indiscretion Shot British Films Plucky Comic Relief Cowboy Cop Married to the Job Punctuated! For! Emphasis! The Bad Guy Wins Villain Protagonist Contrived Coincidence Police Brutality Accidental Misnaming Fate Worse than Death Bad "Bad Acting" Very Loosely Based on a True Story Crucified Hero Shot Made of Iron Implacable Man Vampire Fiction Police are Useless And I Must Scream All Just a Dream A God Am I Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Scary Black Man Dutch Angle Serial Killer O.O.C. Is Serious Business Rasputinian Death Despair Event Horizon The '50s Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Historical-Domain Character Never My Fault Dramatic Gun Cock Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Facial Horror Important Haircut Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Alliterative Name Hooker with a Heart of Gold Dual Wielding Dying Moment of Awesome All Men Are Perverts Fatal Family Photo Accidental Murder Eureka Moment timeperiod "The Reason You Suck" Speech Horror Films Ungrateful Bastard Put on a Bus Darkest Hour Gorn Stylistic Suck Domestic Abuse Mistaken for Gay Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Deadpan Snarker Pragmatic Adaptation She Cleans Up Nicely Early Installment Weirdness Dirty Coward Your Cheating Heart Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Cool Guns Broken Pedestal Neck Snap Arc Words World of Ham I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Noodle Incident Death by Irony Better to Die than Be Killed Interrupted Suicide Calling the Old Man Out Black Comedy Rape Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Reckless Gun Usage She's Got Legs Title Drop Adorkable May–December Romance Sequel Hook A Minor Kidroduction Face Death with Dignity Malevolent Masked Men Earn Your Happy Ending The Alcoholic The Smart Guy Destination Defenestration Dark and Troubled Past I Did What I Had to Do Spared by the Adaptation In Medias Res Corpsing Dogged Nice Guy Never Trust a Trailer Truth in Television Artistic License – Biology Hoist by His Own Petard Asshole Victim Protagonist Title Parental Substitute Affectionate Parody Creative Closing Credits Deus ex Machina Be Careful What You Wish For Black Dude Dies First Karma Houdini Training Montage Cat Scare Martial Arts Movie A Father to His Men Smoking Is Cool Determinator Rated M for Manly Due to the Dead Insane Troll Logic Pre-Mortem One-Liner Cool Old Guy Totally Radical Red Oni, Blue Oni Danny Peary Cult Movies List Meaningful Background Event Big-Bad Ensemble Villain Ball Action Girl Dark Reprise Hollywood Law Worthy Opponent Wrong Genre Savvy Downer Ending The Faceless The Smurfette Principle Poor Communication Kills Zombie Stories Re-Cut Actually Pretty Funny Evil Is Petty All There in the Script Apocalypse How Word of God Everyone Has Standards Italian Films Manic Pixie Dream Girl Dropped a Bridge on Him Male Gaze One Steve Limit Almost Kiss The Stoner My Greatest Failure Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Psycho for Hire Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Bunny-Ears Lawyer Animal Title Index Empathic Environment Fiery Redhead Deliberate Values Dissonance Blatant Lies Rewatch Bonus Serious Business Cain and Abel Mexican Standoff Grievous Bottley Harm Manipulative Bastard Big Brother Instinct Monumental Damage Paper-Thin Disguise Jerkass Together in Death Dumb Blonde Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Whole Plot Reference Corrupt Corporate Executive Bound and Gagged Sacrificial Lion Tranquil Fury folderlabel Ripped from the Headlines Psychological Thriller Shut Up, Hannibal! Mundane Made Awesome Sir Swears-a-Lot Casting Gag Age Lift B-Movie Get Out! Bilingual Bonus What You Are in the Dark Costume Porn Australian Movies Those Two Bad Guys Fake Shemp Market-Based Title He Knows Too Much Stuff Blowing Up Blood from the Mouth The Stoic Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique La Résistance Tagline Disproportionate Retribution Off with His Head! Chekhov's Skill Skewed Priorities Eagleland As the Good Book Says... I'm a Humanitarian All for Nothing Evil Counterpart Obfuscating Stupidity Canadian Movies Auto Erotica Once More, with Clarity! Killed Mid-Sentence Room Full of Crazy The X of Y Index of Film Westerns The Oner Bavarian Fire Drill Mighty Whitey Ass Shove Eye Scream Military and Warfare Films Plot Hole Overly Long Gag Fantasy Films Race Lift Those Two Guys Spiteful Spit It's All About Me And Starring The Chessmaster Fantastic Racism Riddle for the Ages Did Not Get the Girl Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Only in It for the Money Rule of Symbolism Dirty Old Man Funny Background Event Historical In-Joke Pet the Dog Anti-Hero Obviously Evil Madness Mantra Mooks Break the Haughty Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? No Antagonist Adaptational Villainy Suspiciously Similar Substitute Defiant to the End Does Not Like Shoes Psychopathic Manchild Posthumous Character Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience All Girls Want Bad Boys Soundtrack Dissonance Cluster F-Bomb Drives Like Crazy Token Minority Race Against the Clock Hidden Depths Manchild Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Dressing as the Enemy Stepford Smiler Unresolved Sexual Tension Take That! Car Fu Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Hate Sink The Cavalry Not Using the "Z" Word Blackmail Author Avatar Anyone Can Die Gender Flip Big Damn Heroes Cold-Blooded Torture The Hero Dies Evil Plan Red Herring No Name Given Adaptational Attractiveness Body Horror Love Triangle "Awesome McCool" Name Cool Car Heterosexual Life-Partners Closed Circle Tempting Fate "Well Done, Son!" Guy Back from the Dead Gold Digger Beta Couple Imagine Spot Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Breaking the Fourth Wall Butt-Monkey Death Glare Chekhov's Gunman Video Credits Historical Villain Upgrade Kubrick Stare Advertised Extra Thriller Funny Foreigner Badass Bookworm Camera Abuse Informed Ability Needs Wiki Magic Love Sports Stories Chewing the Scenery Anachronism Stew The Lancer Bolivian Army Ending Didn't Think This Through Light Is Not Good Central Theme Crazy Jealous Guy Parental Incest Brother–Sister Incest Intergenerational Friendship Peek-a-Boo Corpse Intrepid Reporter Damsel in Distress The Voiceless War Is Hell One-Word Title Mr. Fanservice For the Evulz The Ditz Heroes Want Redheads The Chick Badass Longcoat Toplessness from the Back Distracted by the Sexy The Cameo Made of Explodium Dark Action Girl Beard of Evil Camp Gay Drugs Are Bad Straight Gay Ambiguous Disorder Unusually Uninteresting Sight Red Shirt Off-into-the-Distance Ending Immune to Bullets Foregone Conclusion Twist Ending Smug Snake Eldritch Abomination Sassy Black Woman In the Back No OSHA Compliance Men Are the Expendable Gender Anguished Declaration of Love Last-Name Basis Mad Scientist Big Fancy House Love at First Sight Novelization Berserk Button